14.5% ▲ +43.5%
Higher than 87% of urban centre areas.
- 2011: 10.1%
- 2016: 13.8%
- 2021: 14.5%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Port Hedland · Urban Centre
Language in Port Hedland
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
A growing number of people speak a language other than English in Port Hedland, with that figure rising 4.4 percentage points since 2011. Now, 14.5% of the community uses another language at home, making it much higher than most similar areas despite being well below the national average.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
While 69.6% of people speak only English, Tagalog is the most common other language at 1.4%. Only 1.1% of residents speak little or no English, a figure that is much higher than most similar areas but barely changed since 2016.
1.1% ▼ -15.8%
Higher than 80% of urban centre areas.
- 2016: 1.3%
- 2021: 1.1%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Port Hedland [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/ucl/UCL513004/port-hedland/topic/language